In this Soundview live webinar, Presenting Value to Executives, Michael breaks the presentation into several components, beginning with a foundation discussion, followed by creating value for your audience, and finally how to put it all together to present your value to an executive committee.

Creating Memorable Content to Influence Decisions

by Carmen Simon

In Impossible to Ignore, Carmen Simon shows you how to execute a proven three-step plan for persuasion: create cues that attract attention and connect with your audience’s needs; use memory-influencing variables to control what your audience remembers; and turn today’s intentions into tomorrow’s actions.

Move Beyond the Competition, Create More Value and Become the Obvious Choice

by Peter Sheahan, Julie Williamson

In Matter, Peter Sheahan and Julie Williamson show you how to identify the place where you can create the most value - your edge of disruption - at the intersection of old and new, where your existing profits, reach and reputation enable you to create the markets of the future.

How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success

by Shane Snow

In Smartcuts, Shane Snow shatters common wisdom about success, revealing how conventions like “paying dues” prevent progress, why kids shouldn’t learn times tables, and how, paradoxically, it’s easier to build a huge business than a small one.

How to Survive and Grow in the Age of Digital Business Models

What Every Leader Must Know About the Future of Job Creation

by Jim Clifton

In a provocative book for business and government leaders, Gallup Chairman Jim Clifton describes how this undeniable fact will affect all leadership decisions as countries wage war to produce the best jobs. While the statistics are dire, Clifton remains optimistic about America’s ability to win the jobs war. The Coming Jobs War offers a brutally honest look at America’s biggest problem and a cogent prescription for solving it.

Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck - Why Some Thrive Despite Them All

by Jim Collins, Morten T. Hansen

A Soundview Featured Book ReviewTen years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns with another groundbreaking work, this time to ask: Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine years of research, buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories, Collins and his colleague, Morten Hansen, enumerate the principles for building a truly great enterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous...

A Leader's Guide to Ending Entitlement and Restoring Pride in the Emerging Workforce

by Eric Chester

Work ethic in America is fast declining, plaguing young and old alike. But in Reviving Work Ethic, Eric Chester shows that you do best to focus on your young employees — those whose habits and ideals can still be influenced. He presents an incisive look at the root of the entitlement mentality that afflicts many in the emerging workforce and shows readers the specific actions they can take to give their employees a deep commitment to performing excellent work. His advice is...

The Revolutionary Process for Achieving Extraordinary Results

by Subir Chowdhury

Subir Chowdhury is the long-established global authority on the critical importance of quality and how to achieve it with Design for Six Sigma. Now, he takes it to the next level by showing you how to build quality into the DNA of your entire organization. In The Power of LEO, he describes how continuous focus on quality improvement can revolutionize any process from manufacturing operations to managerial decision making.